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I've been lurking for a bit but decided that I might as well make a first post with some content. 1998 Pontiac Grand am gt, with the infamous 3100 v6. Was in the shop getting the headgasket replaced (lol GM3100 headgaskets) and apparently when the tech reassembled it he put the intake rods under the exhaust valves and vice versa. Turns out, one of them is longer. Bolted it all back together, turned the key, and bam. Free engine rebuild for me. I got to keep a few of the bent rods.  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. Also, pushrods. 
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ModernDayDiogenes posted:As someone who works at a shipyard, I feel the need to see more examples of bad stuff happening on big metal floating things. Do you by any chance work at the yard where they sent the Hartford for repairs? I was an intern there for a few years and am starting full time in july. Apparently they were at a training exercise and she tried to surface underneath the New Orleans. I wasn't there when she got brought in but from what I heard, it held up to the damage miraculously well for what had happened. A guy I know was stationed on her at the time of the accident, and he said he was sleeping in the torpedo room and woke up on the wall, since she was pitched about 45* off keel. anyway, for content, I was on my school's FSAE team (villanova) and although I wasn't at the competition when this happened, we show the video as a lesson why you put rod ends in tension/compression, and not bending.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJL4-wGPjCo The fact that both the wheels lose it at the same time shows that it was a suspension failure, and not loose lugs like the video implies.
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